OAKLAND – A dice game shooting Friday night in East Oakland left one man dead and another wounded, and two other men were wounded in a drive-by attack less than two hours later, police said Saturday.

Police don’t believe the two shootings are related.

The dice game shooting happened about 9:13 p.m. Friday in the 4500 block of Bancroft Avenue.

A 25-year-old Oakland man died at the scene. A 35-year-old Oakland man, who police said was a friend of the man killed, was in critical condition Saturday at a hospital. Their names were not released.

There were at least two other men also playing dice with them but none of them were hit by the multiple shots fired, police said. A house and some parked cars were hit by gunfire, but no one was injured.

Sgt. Omar Daza-Quiroz said police are not sure why the dice game was targeted. Robbery does not appear to be the motive, he said

Daza-Quiroz said police are trying to determine if the person who opened fire on the group was on the street or in a passing car. No arrests have been made.

The killing is the 69th homicide investigated by Oakland police this year. Last year at this time police had investigated 87 homicides.

At 11:02 p.m. Friday, two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting that happened in the 2500 block of 75th Avenue in East Oakland.

The men were standing on the sidewalk when a car drove by and someone inside began shooting at them.

A 20-year-old man who was hit in the back was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition. A 30-year-old man suffered a graze wound and declined medical treatment.

No motive for the shooting has been released and no arrests made.

Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $20,000 in reward money for information leading to arrests in the Bancroft homicide and up to $10,000 in the 75th Avenue shooting. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.

Harry Harris is a Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He began his Oakland Tribune career in September 1965 as a 17-year-old copyboy. He became a reporter in 1972 and is considered one of the best crime and breaking news reporters in the country. He has covered tens of thousands of murders and other crimes in the East Bay. He has also mentored dozens of young reporters, some of whom continue to work in journalism today.